Classification, Natural History, and Evolution of the Checkered Beetle GenusPujoliclerusPic (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Peloniinae) Author Opitz, Weston text The Coleopterists Bulletin 2014 2014-12-31 68 4 727 756 http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065x-68.4.727 journal article 10.1649/0010-065X-68.4.727 10110416 CD987054-035A-4A5B-B488-EEA35F632F23 Pujoliclerus flavoapicalus Opitz , new species ( Figs. 29 , 58 , 101 , 124 ) Holotype . ♀ . Brazil : Rondonia : 62 km SE Ariquemes , 7-18-Nov-1995 , W.J. Hanson ( FSCA ). Diagnosis. This species is distinguishable from its congeners by the quadrate shape of the sixth antennomere. Description. Size : Length 7.0 mm; width 2.0 mm. Form : As in Fig. 101 . Integument : Head mostly yellow, upper frons and epicranium with black; antenna mostly brown, last antennomere yellow; pronotal disc black, lower edges infuscated, remainder reddish yellow; elytra predominantly brown, epipleural margin slightly yellow posteriorly, apex yellow; legs mostly yellow, anterior margin infuscated; pterothorax and abdomen brown. Head : Eyes as wide as frons (16:16); funicular antennomeres considerably expanded, 6 th antennomere quadrate and very large ( Fig. 29 ). Thorax : Pronotum transverse (47:42), lateral tubercle very prominent ( Fig. 58 ); epipleural fold gradually diminishing to elytral apex; asetiferous punctures prominent in anterior elytral half. Abdomen : Aedeagus not available. Natural History. The type was collected during November. Distribution. Known only from the type locality in Brazil ( Fig. 124 ). Etymology. The specific epithet is a Latin compound name that stems from flavus (= yellow) and apex (= tip) and refers to the yellow tip of the antenna.